Memory Quote by David Mazzucchelli

“THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes…

— David McRaney

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes…

— Pete Docter

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of…

— David Mazzucchelli

“Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets…

— Jodi Picoult

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and…

— Daniel Schacter

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my…

— Gore Vidal

Memories are like songs, they keep replaying in your head until you move on to the next part.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits